well guys it's friday and i'm sure a lot of you are excited for the weekend but for one man and his fiance today is a somber day john cabrera a resident of long beach california is awaiting a verdict in court right now for a felony charge of failing to comply with an executive officer when he shut the door of his house on a cop last year if convicted faces five years in prison now if you think that sentence sounds unfair for someone simply exercising their rights then it might anger you to know the actual story of what went down that night on may fourteenth two thousand and eleven heard a loud knock on his door and opened it to a cop pointing a gun to his face without any reason or warning immediately closed the door on the police officer and told his fiance to get dressed they could go and talk to the police but they never got a chance to do that because what followed was a hail of gunfire from at least six police officers in their apartment building and danger in the lives of those living inside and in the surrounding units of the

complex at least thirty eight bullet holes were found in the walls of the building and compare himself was shot in the arm and torso and over a year later he still hasn't regain feeling in the arm that sustained the bullet wound now the cops involved in the shooting have admitted that john poses no threat that they were just responding to a noise complaint that they thought there was a victim of domestic abuse in the house but this and that violent this kind of extreme response and police violence clearly not it's also worth noting that the same year this incident occurred to long beach police have the highest number of police shootings in the country per capita mostly involving minorities so to talk more about this case and the erosion of our civil liberties in the face of an ever expanding police and surveillance state marc harrold a former police officer author political analyst and author journalist sorry i thank you for coming on to me on fresh air of course used to be. you just kind of

heard us break down this case that knowing both side of the story you're also an attorney what do you think the a say and the man accused here did wrong if i well you know it's not clear we don't hear a lot of conflicting stories with this point what we have is a trial most times what they're going to say is look we can't talk about this there's a trial going on but there seems to be a real hasn't see for real information to come out of the situation whether he did something wrong well the bottom line is when the police officer came up to the house if he had a warrant if there was an exit in z. inside the fact that the police officer stayed outside the house in other words you open the door may or may not have been a reason to have a weapon out but let's say you do have the weapon out when the occupant inside if you really have a right to enter that house if you have probable cause you may be able to follow them inside you may have a warrant there may be an existence of an emergency which allows you to follow them inside the fact that you point a gun at somebody and not follow that individual in makes me tells me that the cops knew they really did have a lawful right to enter the residence and their special fourth member protections to the residence above everything but bodily integrity of the body cavity search maybe come to your house of a big deal for police officers in this case i'm not exactly sure what they did they said they obstructed justice but it's not going to obstruct justice you have to

obstruct the lawful performance of police duties it's not clear what those lawful duties were it's not sure what he obstructed so hopefully gets justice in the trial and again justice for the cops to a trial should be about the truth coming out from both sides well yeah and fortunately the jury pool that was interviewed i think there is someone is that witness the whole thing go down and they said that all the jury basically said you know if a cop has reason to use this sort of violence then then we agree with kind of that cops we defer. to the cops you know side here i mean really when you're looking at these trials here it almost seems like a kangaroo court where you have the jury pool the judge all kind of giving the cops this advantage i do think that they give him some advantage and a lot of this has to do with people trust the police and in most cases i'm a former police officer in several different jurisdictions and i can tell you most police are good people trying to do a great job it's a very tough job but i think the fact that sometimes the people do juries do give deference to cops they do think that they do the right thing i think in some cases that really the alarms go off when they can tell when something. wrong they want to

trust cops but sometimes they can tell when they shouldn't and i think a lot of times juries get it right with these things well that's that's good to know and you know just just to let our audience know i don't think a lot of people realize that what you said before you don't need to open your door you don't need to let police come inside your house unless they do have probable cause i mean it seems like that's kind of lost these days when you know people don't really understand the fourth amendment and what it means well absolutely i mean your house your house is actually listed in the text of the fourth amendment it's very important protection of the home police not only need probable cause to come in your home they need it most almost every case a warrant unless there's an exception the fourth amendment like an emergency somebody inside is screaming help please don't have to go get a warrant you do not have to answer the door for police now if they have a warrant and you don't answer the door they're going to kick it in so you may want to answer the door if they have a lawful reason to enter they have a judicially approved warrant the judge signed off on there probably because they're coming in so a lot of people want to answer the door but as far as the fact you have to answer the door for the police you do not at all and unfortunately this case you know the shooting and shooting up the entire apartment complex more than thirty at times

really really intense you know this this case speaks volumes to law enforcement where police are overstepping their bounds of course a lot of cops are doing it for the right reasons that fortunately if someone there was filming the incident i can't help but think you know none of this would even be an issue and it would really brings me to these eavesdropping laws that we're seeing on the books now and a couple states and a lot of laws just in the works that are preventing people from filming the police do you think that it's a civic duty for people to be able to film the establishment i don't know that it's a civic duty i don't know that in fact you have to go out and do it if you don't want to but i think i have a civic duty something people here is there i definitely think the possibility absolutely the civil right it's a civil right it's very interesting to me because i'm interested in the intersection of the fourth amendment first amendment has a lot of ramifications almost every court that she looked at this and some federal does appellate court high court right below the supreme court have found that you can fill in the cops as long as you don't interfere now there's no question that if a police officers actually arresting someone you've got the camera right there and you're affecting what the cops do and that's not because you're filming it's going . you're interfering you're impeding you're obstructing but as far as whether

you're going to be able to film the cops in public the answer that's going to be yes and i can't see any court coming down with the fact that you can't film public officers being paid by public funds in public doing they're doing right and then unfortunately so many videos have come out that certainly have shown the truth in a lot of situations i want to broaden this conversation of the surveillance state and general i just got a chance to talk to president jimmy carter about kind of the egregious expansion of the surveillance and since he left office i want to play that really quickly. violated a longstanding policy in our coach preserving the the prophecy of american citizens we now have passed laws that permit eavesdropping on private telephone calls and private communications in the past when i was present we passed a law that could not be done in a single case unless you got a judge to decide in advance that this was a national security question which is very rare now is done all over america.

what where what happened since he left office it just seems like business is completely rampant now it is rampant mandarin is one of the main reasons why technology's advanced for the basic point you have to in the past for a fourth amendment violation for a search or a seizure the police officers the government had to intrude on something you had a protected interest in something private your house your car something where they actually either crossed a physical boundary or you had an expectation of privacy what's being happening now is basically replicating police being able to follow you around and they've always been able to do that police can follow you around and watch you but nobody had the resources to do it before the technology we're going to have to do is we're going have to get past the idea of criminal procedure constitutional law fourth amendment that we need protection against unreasonable search and seizure and we're going to have to add the word surveillance to the fourth amendment or amend the constitution what we need now is a real conceptual framework not just piecemeal laws that we have a right to be free from unreasonable search and seizures and surveillance in this country we're going to have to take this step this is jimmy carter talking about this maybe president obama when he steps down will be the same as the white allies

eisenhower talking about the military industrial complex i'm talking about we're in a real switch of time here and people almost expect to be watched and again if they come to the point where they don't expect not to be watched the law will protect you because a lot of it's based on your expectation of privacy and how sad is that that now we just expect it we expect that we're just surveilled everywhere we go i mean i feel like the result of the expectation of privacy should be with the technology you know the evolution of technology but i'm sure you've heard of this giant data center and utah not only is that data mining all private communications but it's it's that if you become a person of interest in the future they can retroactively take all of your communications pretty much in the history of your online presence and use it against you i mean what i have a scale this back where do we go from here barred it's a generational thing you know rights aren't so much taken as often as the relinquish people just give them up i think that texas case with the student who's pushing back on the idea that they were a chip around to the school can track them like a minute taller maybe you've got to look at that but when you get kids and you start getting kids used to the idea that from the time they go to school they put

something on it's got a chip in it and so. principle can track them throughout the building this student will come to accept that people will become program like a litany of dogs and all the sudden because people expect that they will expect privacy and if you don't expect privacy the government will never respect it for you there's no chance that will ever happen yeah yeah they are if i did something and since that absurd it's scary and it's beyond or well ian i mean it's truly fit for dystopian novel so yeah i mean we're just so we have to demand it we have got to step it up and i'm absolutely if you don't demand rights the the the government's never going to protect them for you've got to assert your rights their individual rights which means you can give them up if you want but it also means you have civic responsibilities we talked about to assert them and we'll see about this generation the going to get used to this and they already are and i just hope that we can really wake up before it's too late already seems like it might be but thank you so much for coming on thank you old really appreciate it. well if you like what you see so far go to our you tube channel you should dot com breaking the set and subscribe check out our facebook page facebook dot com site breaking the fat i know haters going to hate going to troll actually television feel free to

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live plug. live. leak. in the eleven long years since the nine eleven terrorist attacks americans effectively been forced to live in a perpetual state of fear fear of terrorism the big bags scary beast that applies to way too much these days and with that has come a laundry list of controversial legislation that has systematically eroded the rights of american citizens most recently the two thousand and twelve national defense authorization act or the n.b.a.

a bill that president obama signed on new year's eve of last year which included a quad that granted the president the power to indefinitely detain american citizens on u.s. soil and although the senate recently passed a two thousand and thirteen n.d.a. along with the new provision allegedly protecting american citizens from indefinite detention many legal experts are saying not so fast and they're speculating that the new bill might actually be worse than its predecessor so here to talk about the n.b.a. and the significance of this latest amendment i'm joined by pandering bolen founder and director of revolution truth and one of the seven plaintiff plaintiffs are in the n.b.a. indefinite detention the lawsuit against president obama thank you so much for coming on and. so can you first explain breakdown this feinstein amendment because i really think a lot of people are really confused by including myself. well i understand at least so because the reporting on it has been very confusing

a lot of us where some of the charring prematurely because we looked on a circus like it was a positive thing but we really can break it down there are a number of significant objections to the finance and those include the ones that you are ready for such as the fact that it's highly discriminatory the alleged protections only apply to citizens and legal residence which is actually not constitutional and second it extends it officially extends the i've already of the authorization for use of military force to the united states citizens and on u.s. soil which operated to debate whether the government ever have that right before and thirdly it only calls for a trial it doesn't stipulate whether that's a military or civil trial that's a significant problem and also in that it doesn't stipulate any regulations for procedures on that so if this is just a military trial this is the same thing that we are he's on a twenty twelve and a which is that people are denied any access to counsel there

is no forcing them until military to make sure they have access to family or friends who can see k.b.'s relief on their on their behalf they can rot in prison years in that instance and that's obviously not ideal in any way shape or form so i will thank you for breaking that down so as of this point in time i mean well of course since it hasn't been passed yet in obama's senate he might veto it for who knows why but i mean as of right now with this amendment in place if it doesn't get passed can we or can we actually say goodbye to a definite detention for american citizens and then what about american citizens abroad and foreign nationals here in the u.s. could you just specify that one more time. i don't think we can say goodbye to indefinite detention and i don't think the u.s. government wants us to be able to say goodbye to end up in a detention as you know there are having us tooth and nail and court over that so no we can't say goodbye to it as far as foreign nationals and u.s. citizens overseas it's interesting the. u.s. government claimed in court we shouldn't have any standing because we can't cite

a single instance. be used to indefinitely detain anyone overseas they also converse they say they don't know which they use to apply indefinite detention i mean they can really all over the place here so when the u.s. government doesn't even know which law applies i don't know why i should so. it is extraordinary isn't it how the lengths that the obama administration has gone to really keep this in place and also the mental gymnastics of people who are defending the obama administration say well he didn't he never wanted it he you know he was he didn't want to pass it it's like well his shirt is held trying really really hard to uphold this clause of indefinite detention he's threatening to veto this current version of the bill why do you think the white house has been fighting so hard do you think there's a possibility that american citizens are already being held in detention indefinitely here. you know i think that's a that's a tough question i don't know if american citizens are but this is what i will tell you i think is happening i think that the u.s.

government has long claimed incredibly over garage possibly illegally overbroad powers under the operation for use of military force acts and i think that both bush and obama administrations have been using that so overall the personae years and what the end was was a sneaky attempt at a legislative retroactive thanks to those two narrow powers that really well explains the incredible disingenuous ness and deceitful ness on the part of the d.o.j. throughout our court case it's just unfortunate that major media has not picked up on that because it's a perv their stance in court is profoundly contradictory and bizarre you so so i think that the government the president is trying to keep powers they maintain they've always have they never had to come upon which they've come to rely so salute leon as a horse another thing that hasn't been getting much attention is gone tata moment i mean really i mean how does that fit into the bill. well you know to his credit

obama is threatening to you so the twenty thirteen n.d.a. largely because congress i mean just so bizarre only has that has put a stipulation that absolutely would prevent any more transfers out of guantanamo and there are fifty six yemeni citizens who are awaiting of these who have been long cleared for release and i just have to say i connected a panel yesterday i want and in particular i'll let you commit suicide there in september and i found he is the face of indefinite detention he was a classic case of wrong place wrong time caught up in two thousand and one under the a you know math and tortured i mean it's just went through absolute hell and finally gave up and actually wrote in a letter to his lawyer that the only just as he had left was through his own death so he used aides of indefinite detention and you know we all should be fighting this and we all need to be expose. the government is claiming they've always had these hours now they have it and you know contravene international law so i really

would like to see our government claiming to be pro democracy and pro rights oh well it's when they certainly have a critical tangerine but also it also bothers me that people are so focused on american citizens been indefinitely detained really it's just human beings i mean we need to start extending our empathy past nation states and really caring about the indefinite detention of any human being under this government of course but one really important aspect of this bill which is also very under reported is this latest amendment that essentially notify the smith munda act of one nine hundred forty eight that forbids information and psychological operations aimed at influencing u.s. public opinion in other words making the use of propaganda legalize can you talk a little about this. so i'm not that familiar with the act but i will say i think as you said in your earlier interview if this is incremental steady erosion in our rights and it is overwhelming and i mean i think the term is bandied about these days that it's done so quite legitimately me and we just see on every front the

u.s. government is claiming these sweeping unchecked dictatorial powers and even the power to do you define news and basically make it propaganda i'm sorry that's not a democracy it's not a democratic or something else altogether so yeah very disturbing. if you and i really thank you for everything you do on this front because people need to know about stranger strangers to me as i thought propaganda was already in use i mean it's just like oh well i thought that that's already been happening in this country for the last decade is another corporate media's but really when you also know anything about we'll have like thirty seconds left you know anything about the senator wrote about the n.b.a. and huffington post where he talks about how this effectively authorizes war against iran with section one two two two of the bill kind of directing our armed forces to prepare perform war do you know anything about that you know it does look like it. why is that and there is also some some stuff in the works about expanding the map to africa i mean we big government is really going out of its way to extend

the battlefield war world by. and i mean this war has no geographic or temporal boundary and that changes the rules of rules of the game all together it does indeed and it seems like they're just trucking this bill full of more and more war measures thank you so much for coming on for your work for your courage tender and bolan really appreciate time thank you. all right guys we'll spend the weekend with all the crazy news happening in the world alleged chemical weapons in syria the u.s. plummeting off a fiscal cliff violent protest in mexico's self-immolation and tibet i mean it seems like the world's falling apart everywhere you look but instead of getting the latest news on all of these important issues from the corporate media all i've been seeing this week is this. royal baby royal baby from

a little baby well baby it's the news royal thing and seven waiting for ever since prince william and his wife kate said i do the royal couple is expecting a baby princess kate middleton is pregnant after months of tabloid speculation and rumor the royal family has confirmed today that the duke and duchess of cambridge are expecting some breaking news buckingham palace has just announced that the duke and duchess of cambridge william and kate are expecting a baby that i hate this baby already earthly a fetus developing what is that breaking news come on there's a lot of things that i could say about this most of which stems from i up utter disdain of a celebration of carrying on a royal blood line that does nothing more than symbolize feudalism in the twenty first century but seriously while this story was pulling in about a thousand tweets per minute many other things that have actually been happening that affect people on this planet for example earlier this week congress passed a new n.b.a. bill for twenty thirteen which includes it in amendment but supposedly does away

with the whole indefinite detention business. sadly that's not the case in fact all senator feinstein's amendment on one hand provides protection for americans on the other hand it takes away protections for other peoples legally in the us like journalists now president obama's threatening to veto the bill in its current form the weekend can't forget that's exactly what he did last time right before he signed it on new year's eve so what else was big this week oh yeah whistleblower army private bradley manning who after being arrested in may of two thousand and ten finally took to the stand to speak about his unlawful treatment at quantico he was forced into solitary confinement for extended periods of time made to wear leg irons and stripped down naked every night but it's only been independent bloggers and journalists following this trial on a daily basis few days ago i spoke to lex o'brien who's one of the few journalists actually covering the story about why the media has been silent on a case that has such profound implications. to one major broadcast reporter outside

about the ten stories you could get from this trial that are important for the public and their like the public doesn't care so there's this kind of apathetic demoralized view about the wool of journalism and how important it is and i think that they've kind of just given up. but i guess it's no surprise that if it isn't shock and horror violence it simply won't make headlines it's just the standard of news in america today and yet another under reported story this week is following the un's international telecommunications union conference in dubai where the un agreed to work towards building the standard for the internet that would allow eavesdropping on a worldwide scale oh i'm not making this up it's called the why to seven seven zero standard for deep packet inspection which could allow international telecom corporations to more easily watch every little thing you do online.

look some people would say it's unreasonable to blame the lack of coverage on these crucial issues on the royal feet is perhaps they say it's only a minor distraction but here's what i say in response when there's so many things left to question one there are so many stories that needing our attention isn't any distraction one distraction too many. eat. eat eat eat eat eat eat.

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